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Intro to GIS and mapping with Scholars’ Lab
University of Virginia’s Scholars’ Lab is making intro classes to mapping available on their site: The Scholars’ Lab GIS workshop sessions are designed to be accessible without prior knowledge or experience with GIS software and to give attendees hands-on experience with step-by-step instructions. Workshop topics are based on the how-to questions Kelly and Chris answer […]
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“Feminist Modernist Studies” Special Issue on Digital Humanities
The 3rd issue of the new Feminist Modernist Studies journal focuses on the issue of feminist scholarship with and within DH practices: In our CFP we asked, what might feminism offer DH? Across this cluster, essays agreed that feminist DH is not just “about women,” but entails a collaborative feminist practice of breaking down boundaries, […]
[Read More]Blog by Anke Finger
Welcome back: It’s Year 2 for DHMS
As the semester gets under way, DHMS is ready to roll out a number of updates, news, and events for the new academic year 2017/18. Welcome back, everyone! First a quick review of Year 1: following the creation of the brand new graduate certificate in Digital Humanities and Media Studies in February – with much-appreciated […]
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Watch Your .edu, Know Your Repositories
In a January 2017 Forbes article on scholarly publishing, historian Sarah Bond takes aim at platforms ready to host academic articles or chapters. For pay. Her case in point is academia.edu: As privatized platforms like Academia.edu look to monetize scholarly writing even further, researchers, scientists and academics across the globe must now consider alternatives to proprietary companies […]
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New Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities and Media Studies
The first brainbytes blog of the spring semester serves as an announcement: UCONN has a brand new Graduate Certificate! Welcome back. Pending final approval by the Board of Trustees, the Humanities Institute is pleased to announce a Graduate Certificate in DHMS. This certificate will supply interested graduate students with crucial training and with marketable skills […]
[Read More]DHMS Q & A
Yohei Igarashi, Assistant Professor of English
1. What initially intrigued you about research/teaching in digital humanities or media studies? I was immersed in media studies from the very start of grad school, but not really before then. One of the first courses I took as a masters student at Columbia focused on media studies, and later, when I was a Ph.D. […]
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Jennifer Snow, Digital Scholarship Librarian
1. What initially intrigued you about research/teaching in digital humanities or media studies? I began my work at UConn as the History Librarian six years ago, and I have slowly grown my skills and interests from there. I have a Master’s in History, although I was trained in the traditional research methodologies. Digital humanities didn’t […]
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